Literary Firsts

Erica Anzalone is currently a Schaeffer fellow and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She holds an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. Her manuscript, Samsara, is the recipient of the 2011 Noemi Press Book Award for poetry. It will be published in the fall of 2012.

Erica is the poet for the October 15 reading.